The Other Side of Darkness

Obviously those who have a stake in the film wanted to prop the film up but hey, if you're going to do that, at least make the scoring realistic.

Best to take an average of the real reviews.. it was dull but the movie did have a good premise. A lot more could be done but I feel there wasn't enough professionalism behind the production.

Tricked to watch it by the high imdb rating 9, now falling to 4.6.

It is a story about love and family reunion of a teenage girl. Don't it to be a diaster or consipiracy movie.

It's like an ordinary but very modern teenager adventure. The leading girl is only 16 but works as a car mechanic and knows well how to drive a car, especially without a licence. She uses that car all through the film without a driver's licence, and no one ever checks her. She goes off with a friend of hers, who is scared out of her wits for anything she encounters out in the wilderness of nature, and all she wants is to get out of there, while her brother joins the ride uninvited, so they are sure asking for trouble and get enough of it for a lifetime, making some love on the way and discovering the truth of some weird ancestry, meeting both her father and grandfather, who is an AA sponsor. Well, it's an ordinary complicated family affair all twisted up and gradually getting all blown up. The main theme of the film is some problems with some local power cuts, that seem to spread across the continent, and these poor innocent youths just happen to get at the heart of a nasty sabotage plot to scare the s*** out of the whole country. Will it succeed? Well, it certainly doesn't scare the s*** out of the audience, who will rather yawn until the bitter but eagerly expected end. There is some great nature scenery out of Ohio (not West Virginia although the action is supposed to take place there,) and the music is decorative enough, but the script suffers from a very poor dialog, like in most American films mainly using.common vulgar profanity words to fill up the dialog. Recommended only for teenagers.

This could have been good movie but it looks like one of those cheezy Hallmark or christian movies. The constant music was annoying & it looks amateur. They wasted a good opportunity to make a 'serious' movie about the electric grid going down & how people would have to cope with it.

I watched the whole movie! I deserve an Oscar! This could have been a good movie of warning value, but it was predictable, weird sulky attitudes, over acting, and really bad choice of music! The music seemed more for a transformer movie or military film for the Fourth of July! If you have nothing to do, watch it, but expect characters without manners, and convenience of plot.